DATE : 2013-08-14

Dow Chemical expects to resume Acrylic Acid (AA) production at its plant in Boehlen, Germany, in the next few days, a source from the company confirmed on Wednesday.

“Boehlen is still down and we hope to have the plant back within the next days,” the source said. The turnaround beganin the second week of July.

The outage is also impacting its Butyl Acrylate (butyl-A) production.

Dow has an annual AA capacity of 80,000 tonnes/year, and can produce 40,000 tonnes/year of Butyl-A from its Boehlen facility, in Saxony.

SOURCE : Icis News